The general visualization options for ElastoDict-Effective Stiffness are presented here. These options apply for arbitrary ElastoDict-Effective Stiffness runs. The simulation settings are not relevant here.

Render the structure in 3D (by clicking) and go to the Structure tab in the visualization panel (above the Visualization area). Set the Structure Renderer to Smooth. Then, select Transp. Mode to Volume, set the Transparent Material ID to 00, and set the Transparency value to 0.10.

Usually, the material with ID 00 is set to invisible, so the transparency setting has no effect.

Click to open the Color & Visibility Settings dialog and check visible to enable visibility for the material ID 00.

You can find more Visualization option in the Visualization userguide section.

Visualization of displacement and stresses

After all selected load cases have been computed, result fields can be loaded by choosing the corresponding *.das file and clicking Load Results in the Result Viewer (*.gdr).

In the next dialog, choose the components which should be visualized: Strain and Stress for all calculated load cases, like e.g., von Mises Strain and Stress, DisplacementX, DisplacementY, DisplacementZ, and Displacement. Check the load cases of interest and click OK.

Choose the displayed data through the Color by pull-down menu, under the Volume Field tab, in the Visualization panel above the Visualization Area.

Tools are available for the visualization in 2D Cross Section (SEM) and in 3D Rendering.

For 2D visualization, select View → 2D Cross Section (SEM) in the Menu bar.

The structure in the model can be set to invisible to observe only the results (Volume Field). For this, select View and un-check Structure in the menu bar or directly in the View Controls tab.

The control of 2D visualization parameters is also done through the Visualization panel above the Visualization Area.

In 2D and 3D Rendering, a color bar appears to the right (if the default position is not changed) during the visualization of the result file, indicating the gradation of the currently selected property.

Click the Edit… button to edit the Default Color Map or add a new Colormap by choosing Add… in the dropdown menu (and then click the Edit… button). Alternatively, new colormaps can also be defined in the Color Map dialog.

In the Color Map dialog, define the upper and lower limits of the color scale, add transparency to the visualized result field, and assign a particular Color Space (RGB, HSV, LAB).

The values entered in the Color Map dialog can be saved into a *.gps (GeoDict Project Settings) file by clicking on the first icon in the lower left corner. By clicking on the second icon settings can be loaded again from a *.gps file.

As you can observe in the histogram in the Value Range panel, the values concentrate in an area below a value 5.0e-05. To highlight the areas with high strain, we increase the Percentile Low to 80.

Note how the color of the result field in the Visualization area and the histogram change accordingly.

To emphasize the areas where the strain is elevated, you can activate Transparency under the Volume Field tab or directly in the Color Map dialog. Make sure that No Interpolation is selected in the Interpolation dropdown menu and then modify the transparency curve in the Color Map dialog, as indicated in the image on the right.

In the figure below, the transparency for low values is increased to see through these areas, and upper values with a high transparency are highlighted.